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Microsoft Fabric Platform Lead - Data Governance
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Microsoft Fabric Platform & Data Governance Lead
Location: London
Contract: 6 Months
Compensation: Day Rate DOE
We are seeking a senior Microsoft Fabric Platform & Data Governance Lead for an exciting engagement based in London.
This is a combined role requiring strong technical Microsoft Fabric expertise alongside proven experience leading enterprise data governance initiatives and engaging directly with business stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Microsoft Fabric Platform
- Review the current logical and technical design of the Microsoft Fabric platform.
- Assess whether the existing architecture meets enterprise-grade standards.
- Identify architectural risks, technical gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
- Define and introduce Microsoft best practices, reference architectures, and reusable templates.
- Review areas including OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Factory, Power BI, workspaces, security, and deployment.
- Establish appropriate standards for scalability, resilience, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Produce a clear target architecture and prioritised improvement roadmap.
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Platform and Data Governance
- Lead the organisation’s data governance programme.
- Establish clear data ownership, accountability, and decision-making responsibilities.
- Define and embed Data Owner and Data Steward roles.
- Lead workshops with business, data, technology, risk, and compliance teams.
- Ensure all key governance areas are addressed, including data quality, metadata, lineage, classification, access, privacy, and data lifecycle management.
- Establish practical governance policies, forums, controls, and reporting processes.
- Ensure governance requirements are embedded within the Microsoft Fabric platform.
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Required Experience
- Deep technical expertise in Microsoft Fabric and the wider Azure data ecosystem.
- Experience reviewing and designing enterprise-scale data-platform architectures.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft architectural best practices, standards, and templates.
- Proven experience leading data governance, stewardship, and ownership initiatives.
- Ability to operate effectively across both technical and business environments.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Experience producing practical architecture and governance roadmaps.
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